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IIT Kharagpur ranked 4th in India in the latest QS World University Rankings 2025

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur ranked 4th in India in the latest QS World University Rankings 2025. The institute jumped ahead 49 places in comparison to its 2024 performance to become the 222nd University in the world. The first and the largest IIT of the country ranked 3rd among all IITs of the country in the QS World University Rankings 2025.

Speaking on the QS World University Rankings 2025, Prof. V K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur remarked, “IIT Kharagpur has upheld the nation’s resolve to excel the standards of globalization with artificial intelligence, advance manufacturing systems and transportation, 5G Network, safety engineering and analytics, quality and reliability, affordable healthcare, precision agriculture, food nutrition and smart infrastructure to contribute towards an Atmanirbhar Bharat.”

The World University Ranking 2025 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) featured 1503 Universities from all over the world and evaluated 5663 institutions in total. The institute has performed well in parameters like International Research Network, Sustainability and Citations per Faculty.

 As an institute of eminence, IIT Kharagpur’s initiatives on developing Technological Research Parks, Centres of Excellence, start-up incubators, Lab to Market products and Nano Missions are the new ecology for innovation and technological pursuits of the institute. Successful implementation of Vikshit Bharat as instituted by our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi requires participation of several stakeholders including government agencies, public and private enterprises, academic and research organizations. We have to acquire the opportunity in digital economy space and biomedical engineering fostering technological expansions by creating the human-machine synergy that would set the future technology development agenda for the developed India,” Prof. Tewari added.

Many Congratulations to all the Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff Members!!

KGP ka tempo high hai!

 

 

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Centre of Excellence for Advance Manufacturing Technology develops grounding projects in AI – iWeld & iToFD

IIT Kharagpur has proven its Tryst with Innovation with its latest dominant supremacy in the field of Artificial Intelligence with two of its ground breaking projects on AI-enabled non-destructive testing for weld defect analysis, from Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology (CoEAMT),  IIT Kharagpur led by Prof. Surjya K Pal, Chairperson, Centre of Excellence in Advance Manufacturing. These two innovative solutions have been shortlisted by TATA STEEL for “TechEx 2024” exhibition.

The first, “iWeld, an AI-enabled NDT” software is an innovative solution developed for Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE)  Kolkata, Ministry of Defence. iWeld is designed to identify, localize and classify different types of weld defects, such as blowhole, wormhole, porosity, lack of fusion, and inclusion, from radiography images with remarkable accuracy. The performance of the iWeld has been certified by the Indian Register of Shipping (No.: 2023PC001, Dated: 9th Aug 2023). This was also recently shortlisted as one of the four innovations from IIT Kharagpur which were showcased at “IInventiv 2024” – the first-of-its-kind, mega R&D fair, where all IITs, NITs and other top Institutions in the country participated to show case the their cutting-edge innovations in R&D.

The ability of iWeld to enhance the quality and efficiency of weld inspections has marked it as a truly successful product, standing as a testament to successful collaboration between CoEAMT and GRSE. Jointly copyrighted with GRSE, iWeld is now primed for commercialization. Mr. Avishek Mukherjee, a Doctoral Scholar in Advanced Technology Development Centre, has devoted considerable effort and dedication to bring about this development.

“Recently, this has also been selected and showcased by the mega technical Event, IInventiv 2024, organised by MoE at IIT Hyderabad. This software is already certified by Indian Register of Shipping, and has been handed over to GRSE for daily operational usage with human-like accuracy. This software has been jointly copyrighted with GRSE as well. It is a product with TRL:8/9. GRSE and CoEAMT will now jointly go ahead for commercialization at other industrial ends. AI-enabled NDT for auto evaluation of weld defects from Ultrasound data: This project is being funded by TIH. It has already been filed for patent. A group of students at CoEAMT are planning to spin-off soon with these AI-enabled NDT solutions for weld defect analyses. Our students are doing wonderful job. Their success for solving perennial industrial problems is awesome. The credit goes to the interns and scholars,” said Prof. S K Pal, Chairperson, CoEAMT.

The second solution, “iToFD“, under a project funded by  (TiH) of IIT Kharagpur, revolutionizes the detection and sizing of weld defects using ultrasonic time-of-flight diffraction (ToFD) data. This cutting-edge system integrates advanced signal processing with AI algorithms for precise defect localization and measurement. This automated solution, patented recently (Patent filed ref no: 202331060331), is nearly 15 times faster than traditional manual inspections. Mr. A K Vishwanathan, Undergraduate student in Chemistry; Mr. Sarvan Kumar Singh, Undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering; Mr. Ananta Dutta, Doctoral Scholar in Mechanical Engineering, and Mr. Avishek Mukherjee, Doctoral Scholar in Advanced Technology Development Centre are diligently contributing to this project.

“The Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology at IIT Kharagpur is geared up in solving various perennial problems of the industries through deployment of artificial intelligence, and Industry 4.0 concepts.   I am extremely happy to see the passion of students associated with the CoEAMT while working with the industries, at this stage of their lives, providing innovative solutions. They shine with a profound grasp of industrial challenges. CoEAMT is open to induct more students and train them to take up interesting and challenging industrial problems, and solve them,” added Prof. Pal.

Inputs by: Prof. Surjya K Pal, Chairperson, Centre of Excellence in Advance Manufacturing Technology
Email: surjya.pal@icloud.com

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This School at IIT Kharagpur is Upgrading Quality and Reliability for Indian Industries

“Quality combines people power and process power .  .  . The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business” ~ Subir Chowdhury, Quality Guru, Distinguished Alumnus Awardee

India has taken a giant step towards upgrading its manufacturing operations to Industry 4.0 and transforming into an industrial hub. As industry-oriented research, product development and IP transfer are being intensified across a wide range of advanced manufacturing, an important aspect for the industry to address is now the quality of people and process which thereby would lead to optimal product quality. Achieving this goal of India-specific quality maintenance in the industrial sector would require a whole new vertical of professionals who would be excelling in Quality and Reliability of the 3Ps – people, product and process.

IIT Kharagpur, which has pioneered in several academic disciplines in India, has taken up the responsibility to train industry professionals and academicians through courses and training modules to develop the new age quality professionals at the Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability.

Talking about the opportunities unlocked by the School, Head, Prof. Sanjay Kumar Chaturvedi said, “over the years we have experienced a great scope as well as demand for engineers from diverse backgrounds who are well-trained in quality and reliability. Our records give evidence with our graduates placed from the nuclear energy sector to defense research to automobile, steel, power, other manufacturing sectors and even IT.”

In India, while Quality courses are offered by most of the universities as part of the industrial engineering program at the undergraduate level, specializations in quality are mainly offered by a few IITs only at the postgraduate level. However, IIT Kharagpur is the only institution in India to offer a comprehensive M.Tech. program in Quality and Reliability Engineering. Besides, the School offers MS and PhD programs in various domains of quality and reliability such as network, human, software, Maintenance Engineering, Probabilistic Risk and Safety etc.

“In addition to postgraduate degree programs in Quality and Reliability Engineering we offer core courses, electives and microspecializations to students at all levels of study. Our quality and reliability courses are offered separately without any amalgamation,” added Prof. Chaturvedi.

Further, the School has been organizing short-term courses for working professionals both from academic and industry backgrounds. Several of the industrial training programs were in-situ for industries, wherein solving a real problem from the industry by an attendee was a part of the course. In the recent past, the School has worked with top industry brands such as Siemens, Whirlpool, TVS, John Deere, Tata Steel, DRDO etc. in areas encompassing system reliability, industrial safety, risk assessment, life testing, reliability centered maintenance, product reliability assessment and assurance and many more.

Opining his vision for the School, patron Subir Chowdhury said, “The economic impact of poor quality on a nation is huge. It affects the quality of life for its citizens. The quality and reliability processes taught and practiced in India need to be upgraded to a much higher level. Since India has ambitious plans for self-sustainability in the manufacturing sector, it is necessary that the products developed and manufactured meet national and international standards in terms of quality and reliability and safety. Also in order to meet the production targets, manufacturing processes needs to be made reliable. The School can really contribute in this journey in terms of supplying training, consultancy and research.”

Along with his organization ASI Consulting Group, USA, Subir is actively engaged in the development of academic materials, laboratories and faculty for the School. Recently in an e-workshop organized by the School in association with ASI Consulting Group international quality experts Shin Taguchi (CTO, ASI), and Alan Wu (VP, ASI) shared insights on Robust Engineering and Optimization. 

Following Subir’s goal to take the concept of quality to the common citizens of India and making it their personal need and responsibility, the faculty members at Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability are in the process of organizing web-based awareness programs.

The School further aims to develop newer modules in Industry 4.0 and AIML.

Pondering on it Prof. Chaturvedi remarked, “With the aim of researching this impact as well as the utilized methods a comprehensive analysis of the effect of Industry 4.0 on quality control is imperative. The integration of wireless sensor networks and IIoT is a substantial challenge and it should be implemented to guide engineers to make the correct decisions. As a consequence, by utilizing machine learning and smart sensors, irregularities could be automatically accommodated by the process in order to guarantee the best possible quality of the final products. It is particularly important to integrate and apply the tools of Industry 4.0 to quality control in order to decidedly increase the precision of the measurement.”

More about Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability: http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/RE

The article has been written in collaboration with various authors from the Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability

Web Workshop by Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability

In the present scenario of global competition, the Quality and Reliability of products and processes play a vital role in the design, maintenance, operational safety/security and management of engineering systems.

Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability, the first of its kind in India and a unique School of excellence focuses on overall improvement in engineering skills of students by exposing them to theory and practices in Quality and Reliability Engineering.

The School is organizing a Web Workshop exclusively for the faculty members of IIT Kharagpur on Robust Engineering and Optimization, on February 24, 2021, 6.30 pm-10.30 pm IST.

This workshop focuses on the strategic approach for product development developed by Dr. Genichi Taguchi. There are three main topics

1. Robust Optimization

  • What is “Robustness” and why focus on “Robustness”.
  • How to assess and optimize “Robustness”
  • How optimization for “Robustness” can lead to cost reduction.
  • How optimization for “Robustness” can lead to a drastic reduction in time-to-market.
  • Case studies on Robust Optimization;
    • Auto parallel parking control system
    • Steer by wire
    • Body in white frontal crash safety
    • Magnetic sensing system for angular measurement

2. Mahalanobis Taguchi System (MTS) for Optimization of Pattern Recognition/ Diagnostic System

  • The basic concept of MTS and how MTS can minimize misdiagnosis such as false positive and false negative
  • Application of MTS such as Erath Quake Prediction, Monitoring System for Complex Manufacturing, Diagnosis on Rocket Launching Event, etc.

3. System Behavior Testing (SBT) for System Design Validation

  • How SBT works to develop validation test scenarios such that hard-to-detect failure modes can be detected
  • How to analyze SBT test result

Speakers:

Mr. Shin Taguchi, CTO, ASI Consulting Group – Shin is President of the American Supplier Institute (ASI), dedicated to improving the competitive position of industries. He is also CTO of ASI Consulting Group in Bigham Farm, M6. Over the last 38 years, has trained more than 84,000 engineers around the world in Robust Engineering known as Taguchi MethodsTM, Pattern Recognition System using Mahalanobis Distance, Quality Function Deployment and DFSS Design for Six Sigma. He works with engineering, product development & manufacturing executives that have saved the American industry hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of the many clients he has helped to make products and processes Robust include Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Hyundai-Kia Motor Company, Delphi Automotive Systems, Chrysler (FCA), ITT, Kodak, Lexmark, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, General Electric, Miller Brewing, The Budd Company, Westinghouse, NASA, Texas Instruments, Xerox, Bosch, TRW, Caterpillar, Navistar and many others. In 1996, Shin developed and started to teach a Taguchi Certification Course. Over 540 people have graduated to date from this ongoing 16-day master certification course.

2000 to present: Shin has done training and coaching on DFSS include Delphi, Bosch Automotive Steering, Flex Automotive, Freudenburg, Ricoh, Mitsubishi Electric and Honda Motor Company.

  • a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in London,
  • a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ),
  • a technical advisor to the Japanese Standards Association (JSA) and Robust Quality Engineering Society of Japan (RQES).
  • co-authored “Robust Engineering” published by McGraw Hill in 1999, “Computer-Based Robust Engineering” by ASQ Press and “Robust Optimization” by Wiley in 2016

Mr. Alan Wu, Vice President and Senior Consultant for ASI Consulting Group: Alan is Vice President and Senior Consultant for ASI Consulting Group, LLC. He is a Master Black Belt in Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and was one of the world authorities in developing the DFSS program at ASI. Alan was the technical engineer on the ANOVA-TM and CAPD-TM Taguchi application software programs and has been training and consulting with manufacturing companies throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia for over 30 years. Alan has taught more than 7,000 people and has coached more than 5,000 projects.

Alan has been instrumental in assisting ASI customers to apply and DFSS methodologies such as Taguchi Methods, QFD, and TRIZ in Product Development and Manufacturing. has trained and consulted with such companies as: Allied Signal, Anheuser Busch, Bobcat Company, Bosch, Case Corporation, CHR Hansen, Delphi Corporation, E.I. Dupont, ESCO Corporation, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, FMC Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Dynamics, General Electric Company, General Motors Corporation, GTE Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard, Hughes Aircraft, ITT, Kaiser Electronics, Kemet Electronics, Lockheed-Martin, LSI Logic, Luminar Technologies, Miller Brewing Company, Motorola, NASA, Naval Weapons Support Center, Newport News Shipbuilding, Northern Telecom, Philips, Rocketdyne, Storage Technology, Texas Instruments, Westinghouse, Weyerhaeuser, ZF, and many others.

​The seats are limited to 20-25 only. Please register by February 17, 5:00 PM.

For registration contact the Head, Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability (SCSQR)​.

To know more about the School visit: http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/RE

Know more about Shri Subir Chowdhury, patron of the School and pioneer in championing the Quality movement across the globe through his thought-provoking ideas, unique methods, pedagogy and passion: https://www.subirchowdhury.com/about